15 Quotes by Mahmud Othman

The Sunnis, the Shiites and the Kurds from the panel met separately with their leaders and will come together tomorrow (Thursday) for a joint meeting.

The Sunni Arabs are way apart on the issue of federalism... I doubt if they would come on board even during the next one week. But next time I think the MPs will approve the draft without the Sunnis.

Everyone is tired after the last week's hectic activities. It is like a holiday today.

By this evening an agreement should be reached between the Kurds and the Shiites on remaining outstanding issues.

If it is delayed a bit nothing much will affect it because this is a deadline we put ourselves, I mean the coalition and the Governing Council, just the two of us. The two of us are in these meetings ... so if we say that we can't finish it, give it a few more days. It's very logical. It won't be any problem as far as Iraq is concerned.

The meeting of leaders is on and they are trying to sort out the differences.